Just planned (co-planned really) my first lesson. This week and last, Sasebo Minami has been hosting student teachers. Tomorrow, the Japanese Student Teacher of English will be teaching the lesson with me instead of my usual JTE (Japanese teacher of English). She came to me with the idea that the students should write about Nagasaki, which I thought was neat. However, the students already have a grammar lesson, so in the classes I teach, I try to get them to speak as much English as possible. So, we're beginning the class by having them get in groups and then write about a place in Nagasaki, with each person saying something. Then each group gets to present their place to the class. If we finish early, we're going to play a game to test comprehension. There's a really awesome game that gets played a lot in classrooms in Japan called the Row and Column game. All of the students stand up. The teacher asks a question and whoever raises their hand first gets to answer. If the answer is wrong, the student remains standing. If the student is correct, they get to sit down and select the row or column they are sitting in to sit down with them. The came continues until a few people are left standing. We're going to use this game to see what they heard the other students say.
Cool, ne?
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